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Schroeder, David H. – 1989
This study assessed the bipolarity of cognitive style for 970 clients of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, a vocational guidance service. The 462 male and 508 female examinees were aged 14 to 65 years, with a median age of 24 years. Three cognitive style tests were investigated: (1) the Kagan Matching Familiar Figures Test (KMFFT); (2) the…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Cognitive Style
Download full textCopeland, Anne P.; Hammel, Robert – 1980
Cognitive self-instructional (CSI) programs have been successful in improving problem-solving skills in many, but not all, children. The importance of understanding the influence of subject characteristics in self-control studies, while often ignored in actual research, has been repeatedly advocated verbally. This paper presents a study designed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Children, Individual Characteristics
McKinney, James D. – 1978
This paper presents a developmental study of the problem solving strategies of reflective and impulsive children. Subjects for the study were 30 nine-year-olds, 39 eleven-year-olds, and 23 thirteen-year-olds who had been classified as reflective or impulsive at ages 7, 9, and 11 and who had been followed longitudinally over a three year period.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo
McKim, Margaret K. – 1979
This study examines two questions: (1) are the natural environmental contingencies under which reflective and impulsive children operate different? and (2) if so, which, if any of these differences, predict the nature of behavior change? Forty impulsive and reflective children and their mothers were observed while solving discrimination problems…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Children, Cognitive Style
Peters, R. DeV.; Bernfeld, Gary A. – 1980
The major purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which cognitive style, as indexed by the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT), is related to the way in which children respond to problems with social or interpersonal content. Fifty-two reflective and 64 impulsive first- and second-grade boys were presented with a number of stories in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Tempo
Hedberg, John G.; McNamara, Suzanne E. – 1985
The effects of different types of feedback in computer assisted instruction were studied in 30 college students with different cognitive styles. The program, written in Apple Pilot and administered on an Apple IIE microcomputer, consisted of 16 problem solving tasks; for each, a graphic display and a textual question were presented. Two feedback…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style
